Ashly Furniture Beds for Needy Children
Ashley Furniture delivers new beds for children entering emergency foster care
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For Firsthand Release
December 30, 2020
Contact: Angela Naso, Public Data Specialist
951-660-1925 | anaso@rivco.org
Ashley Furniture delivers new beds for children inbound emergency foster care
President of national furniture chain says 'every child deserves a expert dark's sleep"
INDIO, Ca.— Ashley Furniture delivered new beds and bedding in Indio on Wednesday to be used for children entering Riverside County foster care on an emergency footing.
Ashley Furniture Homestore established Hope to Dream in 2010. Since then the plan has provided 110,000 children in Due north America with new beds, pillows and bedding with a donated portion of mattress sales from participating Ashley stores. The company's Colton-based shop donated a total of fifty new beds to children entering Riverside County foster care in December.
Ashley Homestore President Kurt Haines said the company wants to provide a good night's sleep to children who might otherwise suffer the negative concrete and emotional furnishings of sleep deprivation.
"It is our belief that every child deserves a good dark'south sleep," Haines said.
More than four,000 children are in Riverside County's foster care on whatever given mean solar day, said Charity Douglas, assistant director of Children's Services. Douglas said she was 'thrilled' by the back up of Ashley Homestore for youngsters and teens in foster care.
"Nosotros are grateful our community, concern and faith-based partners are working together to bring back up and resources to our foster youth," Douglas said. "Through a spirit of caring, we work together to help children achieve stability, healing and hope at an extremely difficult fourth dimension in their lives."
Irene Capen, manager of Faith in Motion, called the new beds a "blessing" on Wed. Faith in Movement contracts with the Dept. of Public Social Services to recruit foster families and ensures children and caregivers have the resource they need.
Each child entering foster care must have their own bed earlier being placed with a family, Capen said. Many of the new beds will become to relative placements so children can remain with family members, who often are responding to unexpected and emergency situations.
"Nosotros want children to remain with family members whenever possible," Capen said, thanking Ashley Homestore for recognizing the essential needs of foster children.
Riverside County Quaternary District Supervisor Five. Manuel Perez, who represents the Coachella Valley, thanked Ashley Homestore for supporting foster children and families in the desert.
While it would be easy for many to have a new bed and bedding for granted, Perez said the common household items hateful more to children in foster intendance and the families that desire to assistance them.
"Providing a child with the sanctuary of a good night's sleep and sweet dreams helps put them on a brighter path forward in school and in life," Perez said. "Thanks to Ashley Homestore for its contribution to our children and communities."
To learn more virtually Faith in Motion and how you can back up children in foster care, email Irene Capen at icapen@fosterall.org or telephone call 951-228-5553.
A deliveryman with Ashley HomeStore unloads 25 beds at a Department of Public Social Services role in Indio on Dec. thirty, 2020
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